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Jul 31, 2008Letters
Jul 31, 2008OSCON: Linux Magazine Contributors Lead Talks Today
Jul 24, 2008Linux Magazine's Perlmeister Mike Schilli and contributor Emma Jane Hogbin will both give talks today at OSCON.
more »OSCON: Open Web Foundation Announced
Jul 24, 2008David Recordon announces creation of Open Web Foundation.
more »Online Videos: USENIX '08 Annual Technical Conference
Jul 14, 2008
Free video archives of Usenix '08 are now online at: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/usenix08.
Archived sessions from the live streaming include companion conference slides. No registration required!
Community Notes Community Notes
Jul 11, 2008Jon Masters rounds up this month’s happenings in the Linux User Group (LUG) community.
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
Jul 08, 2008Although a couple of scratches are visible, you can read from the backup CD. The question is, for how long? Cdck measures the sector access times to give you an idea. Have you overwritten the bootloader on your disk? Super Grub Disk to the rescue!
more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
Jul 07, 2008The people behind Wikipedia have launched the Search Wikia project, which hopes to compete with the major search engines through a mixture of large community and sound financial backing.
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